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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.

Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.

Diane Arbus

I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

Fiona Apple

Children

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

Mary Antin

Heart

Children

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

Mary Antin

Children

Noses

There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.

Having children with someone is the real bond.

Francesca Annis

Children

Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.

We need to think of the future and the planet we are going to leave to our children and their children.

Kofi Annan

Children

Future

You know, I am mainstream America, and it really doesn't matter what party you're in. When you call your children and you say 'How are you?' - and what you are really asking is, 'Do you still have your job? And are you able to make the mortgage payment?', That resonates across the state, not across party lines.

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.